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Combining incisive experiments with the latest theoretical advances, this book presents an extensive study of transfer-triggered breakup, the dominant process by which breakup occurs in reactions involving light, weakly bound nuclei. It demonstrates not only that lifetimes of resonant states shorter than a zeptosecond...

This book introduces the principle theories and applications of control and filtering problems to address emerging hot topics in feedback systems. With the development of IT technology at the core of the 4th industrial revolution, dynamic systems are becoming more sophisticated, networked, and advanced...

First ever pharmaceutical reference book that consolidates the recent and major literature on the drug delivery for retina and posterior segment diseasesEmphasizes the use of implantable devices, iontophoresis as well as micro- and nanoparticles Discusses the challenges and possible improvements to ocular treatment models...

This book reports on the development of different control tools for Brain-machine interface-based assistance and rehabilitation. Brain activity is analyzed with the purpose of classify mental tasks and detecting movement intentions in patients with impaired motility. Event-Related Desynchronization (ERD) and Event-Related Synchronization (ERS) are...

Author: Daniel J. McCoolISBN-10: 3319956477ISBN-13: 9783319956473Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2018Pages: 177Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d

Author: Rasel DasISBN-10: 3319956027ISBN-13: 9783319956022Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2018Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument. It argues that after the Cold War the European Union started challenging the unilateral policies of the United States by promoting new norms and institutions, such as the ICC....

Author: David F. ChannellISBN-10: 3319956051ISBN-13: 9783319956053Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2018Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2019

This book is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, law, institutional framework and culture of global diplomacy. It reflects on the key existential challenges to the institution and addresses aspects that are often overlooked in diplomatic studies: inter alia diplomatic law, development-driven diplomacy...

This volume consists of 15 chapters and focuses on hazardous chemicals, how they are associated with plastics, and their environmental risks. It includes background information on plastics and additives chemistry, and their observed or potential effects on living organisms as well as the oceanographic...

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa. It reflects on difficulties researchers face such as objectivity, access, gender issues and information risks. Focusing across a wide range of states and themes, the project makes an original contribution...

This book examines the continuum of bullying services, including prevention, intervention, and recovery. It reviews current theories, studies, and programs relating to this issue as well as outcome-based solutions to enhance best practices. Chapters discuss prevention and intervention services such as enhancing and promoting...

This edited collection offers a critical appreciation of talent management in contrast to the extensive literature adopting mainstream approaches to the topic. The authors explore fundamental questions in the field to better understand why managing talent seems so attractive as a management practice, the...

This edited collection draws together a variety of contexts of contemporary childhoods, linking thinking from Canada with spaces in the UK and Sweden. The contributors explores the discourses that shape those childhoods and how this then impacts on the way that children come to...

The book is based on interdisciplinary research on various aspects and dynamics of human multimodal signal exchanges. It discusses realistic application scenarios where human interaction is the focus, in order to identify new methods for data processing and data flow coordination through synchronization, and...

Author: Anna EspositoISBN-10: 3319950975ISBN-13: 9783319950976Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2018Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic...

This book explores the application of external physical fields to the solidification processing of metallic alloys. Leading academics from around the world present comprehensive and critical reviews on state-of-the-art research and discuss possible future directions. Major physical fields, including electromagnetic, electric, acoustic, and thermal,...

Author: Michal PiórekISBN-10: 3319948865ISBN-13: 9783319948867Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2018Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

Fills a gap in the research on campus climate in public universities in the USUtilizes survey and assessement data from a wide range of demographics than are available in other studiesAddresses a wide variety of students' identities that are not typically examined in similar...

​This book examines promoting engagement for children and adolescents from challenging contexts or who are dealing with challenging conditions. The volume concentrates on three vulnerable groups: marginalized youths who have experienced repeated exclusion and sought their second chance in alternative education; children who are...

Blends global economics and political trends with regional business prospectsPresents regional research studies in reference to changing political and business trendsReferences recent political ideologies and corporate business strategies affecting the international trade, business, and socio-economic values in developing countries in general, and in particular,...

Examines a crucial but understudied philosophical topic in early modern philosophyLooks at the writings of such early modern thinkers as Hobbes, Cavendish, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, and Leibniz Presents new work by top international scholarsAuthor: Ohad NachtomyISBN-10: 3319945556ISBN-13: 9783319945552Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2018Pages: 211Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize:...

This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of sustainable supply chains has become a complex and...

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of how the human face drives many of our most important social behaviors. People perceive the identities, genders, and attractiveness of others from the many different faces they see every day. There has been great deal of research...

One of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 is that minimum capital requirements are a necessary but inadequate safeguard for the stability of an intermediary. Despite the high levels of capitalization of many banks before the crisis, they too experienced...

On the occasion of the retirement of Paul Smeyers, this book considers the state and status of the philosophy and history of education today. Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place have changed considerably. They have done so in...

This edited volume brings together the expertise of numerous specialists on the topic of particles - their physical, chemical, pharmacological and toxicological characteristics - when they are a component of pharmaceutical products and formulations. The book discusses in detail properties such as the composition,...

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In doing so, it...

This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace's work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work within a number of...

This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. In assessing the history of the United States and its interactions with the continent, particularly with the Horn of Africa, the author casts doubt on whether successive...

Discusses essential industrial, trade and employment policies for Iran Features a revealing case study on Iran's auto industry Explores various aspects of Iran's manufacturing structure and trade regimeAuthor: Pooya AlaediniISBN-10: 3319940112ISBN-13: 9783319940113Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2018Pages: 279Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

These proceedings comprise two workshops celebrating the accomplishments of David J. Benson on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The papers presented at the meetings were representative of the many mathematical subjects he has worked on, with an emphasis on group prepresentations and cohomology....

Takes a multidisciplinary approach to labour migration in Europe Proposes new ideas for tackling the exploitation of migrant workers Examines how the EU can better protect vulnerable workers in Europe Author: Marco BorraccettiISBN-10: 3319939785ISBN-13: 9783319939780Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2018Pages: 139Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.27h x...

Hierarchical relationships--rules that structure both international and domestic politics--are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements...

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. Imagine building mathematical models that make it possible to manage our world better, imagine combining music, art, poetry, literature, architecture and cinema with mathematics. Imagine the unpredictable and sometimes...

Author: Barbara PękalaISBN-10: 3319939092ISBN-13: 9783319939094Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2018Pages: 181Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

This book focuses on the spatial distribution of landslide hazards of the Darjeeling Himalayas. Knowledge driven methods and statistical techniques such as frequency ratio model (FRM), information value model (IVM), logistic regression model (LRM), index overlay model (IOM), certainty factor model (CFM), analytical hierarchy...

​This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster...

Author: Michael SchäferISBN-10: 3319938908ISBN-13: 9783319938905Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2018Pages: 209Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

This book not only discusses the important topics in the area of machine learning and combinatorial optimization, it also combines them into one. This was decisive for choosing the material to be included in the book and determining its order of presentation. Decision trees...

Presents recent research on cognitive multi-agent systemsDescribes structures, strategies and applications to mobile robotics and RobosoccerFocuses on cognitive multi-agent systems in mobile robotics as well as the strategic and cooperative possibilities of mobile robotsAuthor: Mikulás Hajduk,Marek Sukop,Matthias HaunISBN-10: 3319936859ISBN-13: 9783319936857Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2018Pages: 127Format:...

Explains product development using a blend of Design Thinking, Design to Value, Modularization and AgileProvides guidance in turbulent markets, when innovation and disruption are essential.Includes various step-by step tutorialsAuthor: Christoph Fuchs,Franziska GolenhofenISBN-10: 3319935119ISBN-13: 9783319935119Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2018Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Author: Spyros RoukanasISBN-10: 3319934511ISBN-13: 9783319934518Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2018Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students' learning outcomes. The book satisfies the need for an up-to-date overview of FL teaching in Romanian universities in the European...

This book presents design methods and considerations for digitally-assisted wideband millimeter-wave transmitters. It addresses comprehensively both RF design and digital implementation simultaneously, in order to design energy- and cost-efficient high-performance transmitters for mm-wave high-speed communications. It covers the complete design flow, from link budget...

Author: Gary BellISBN-10: 3319932624ISBN-13: 9783319932620Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d

Provides a rare look at the psychology and neuroscientific aspects of recreational mathematics and what it entails for understanding the mathematical mindPresents an overall picture of what pizzles mean for the origins and developments of mathematics Maintains a user-friendly level, while including more technical...

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of...

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym), which is a multi/trans/interdisciplinary event offering an excellent forum for presentations and discussions of the latest scientific and technological developments in various areas of research, with an emphasis on smart design and...